puffy999:geom_00: Personally, I think espn or the like is waiting for some fan to do something stupid.

My complaint isn't about Penn State necessarily... I thought they got hosed in a "different" way. Again, they should've kept their scholarships (heck, I think they should have been allowed in bowls if selected; no BCS bowls or postseason championship of any kind, but the Meineke Hair Care Bowling Bowl would have been fine), but had a regular season TV ban and a much larger fine for the athletic department. That's on the NCAA.

The biggest reason they didn't get a television ban (and why nobody will get a television ban again) is because you're not just punishing the team, you're punishing their opponents as well. How many nationally televised games do you think Ohio, Kent State, and Temple are going to get this year? Probably not many. But they got on national television when they played Penn State and Ohio State this year.

TV bans made sense back in the 1970s when the NCAA controlled who played on television and there was a limit on the number of times a team could be on television in any given year. Nowadays, it's a bigger punishment and it effects teams that didn't do anything wrong. Not to mention that there is a question of whether the NCAA even has the power to levy a TV ban given that the contracts are between the conferences and the networks and not the NCAA and the networks. The NCAA hasn't levied a TV ban in twenty years and I doubt they will any time soon.

This. If anything, they're glorifying the (now 4-2) players and replacement coaches, none of whom had anything to do with what went on. To think they did is just completely going into full delusion mode. Like Jack Welch / Sarah Palin level delusion.